No single person has had a greater impact on National Public Radio in the past year than Juan Williams.

The political wildfire started by his firing took down the media organizations CEO, top news executive and top fundraiser, and sparked multiple votes on the floor of Congress to strip the public broadcaster of federal funding.

As if this were not vindication enough, in Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, a new book out next week, Williams details a decade of what he said was NPRs effort to censor, control and belittle him because of his longstanding relationship with Fox News, and, to some degree, he said, his race.

It is a very elitist and in this case white institution that I think is struggling with the changing demographics of American society, he said. And it struggles with the idea that there are capable thinkers and journalist and people who dont fit into some box.

It is a very elitist and in this case white institution that I think is struggling with the changing demographics of American society, he said.

Elitest? Sure. White? Sure.

Struggling with the changing demographics? That misses the mark. NPR is composed of guilty white Liberals who want to feel good about themselves and so they reflexively attack everything they were brought up to perceive as mainstream and established: Christianity, Western Civilization, and people who look like they do.

That's not precisely "struggling with the changing demographics". It's much more accurate to say that NPR is struggling with self-hatred. Witness the number of Jewish reporters who hate Israel and lavish praise on the Palestinians.

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posted on 07/21/2011 6:08:01 AM PDT
by ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)

"Anna Christopher took issue with Williams characterizations of his tenure at NPR. "Diversity of opinions, ideas, sources, voices, and staff is very important to NPR, as evidenced by the work we do and the people who do it," she said.

It seems to me that Juan Williams was much more reasonable in his appearances on FNC when he still worked for NPR. Now that he has a fat contract from FOX he has become much more radical in his knee jerk defenses of Obama and Liberal policies.

They do air conservative views by one or two conservative spokespeople from time to time so that they can trash them with responses from flaming collectivist-statists, usually outnumbering conservative opinions by at least 10:1.

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posted on 07/21/2011 6:19:31 AM PDT
by Westbrook
(Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)

To the racialist Williams, and for that matter most “persons of color”, EVERYTHING has to do with race, with the important corollary that the white man somehow, despite decades of plethora of openly anti-white legislation, is STILL able to keep the black man down.

Juan is unprincipled proven by his support of Obama. There’s nothing in Obama that’s superior to any of the bologna being spewed on NPR. So Juan’s attack on NPR is only personal and opportunistic. He stayed and licked NPR boots for years and only now tells the story. Suck it Juan.

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posted on 07/21/2011 6:34:06 AM PDT
by discipler
(How's that 'hope and change' working for 'ya? - RL)

My guess, he was told to push hard left to give the network some basis for its claim of bipartisanship. Frankly in any discussion, especially on the 6PM news panel, he is made to look foolish but he gets his views out there on the record.

I love it when Krautheimer shuts him off mid argument.

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posted on 07/21/2011 6:35:30 AM PDT
by Mouton
(Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)

It's much more accurate to say that NPR is struggling with self-hatred.

Beg to differ. Sort of.

These guys don't hate themselves, though they do hate people who look like them.

They love and admire themselves for their superior virtue, which is demonstrated by their separating themselves from and demonizing white people as a group.

IOW, they set themselves (and all white people who think like them) apart from "real white people" by the very criticism they make of them. This allows them to believe themselves superior to people of both pallor and colour.

If they were REALLY self-hating I've be able to tolerate their idiocy and evil a little more easily.

Is this serious? Babyfaced? Freeper ladies, is this true??? I don't see it. Anyways, I agree with a lot of this article except that Juan's insinuation that NPR treated him like this because he's black. No Juan, you strayed off the liberal plantation. If you were white and did this, you would have been fired by NPR. The difference between you and Mara is that she may give her opinions, but she doesn't go into touchy subjects and she doesn't stray from the liberal plantation.

My fav thing on tv is the Panel segment of the Bret Bayer program. Now, Juan has been installed as the regular “liberal” POV. I always kind of liked him before this...but lately? WOW! He says stupid things, can't back them up, then OF COURSE gets his point knocked in the mud by Krauthammer...at which time he actually starts snarling at CK.

I've felt for a few weeks that it is just a matter of time until old Juan blows. He is in over his head and it's p*ssing him off—because where is he to run now? He's burned that bridge.

I don't care for him anymore, he adds nothing to the debate. I am looking forward to that day in the not to distant future when he blows. Should be entertaining to watch CK’s sardonic reaction.

“Anna Christopher took issue with Williams characterizations of his tenure at NPR. “Diversity of opinions, ideas, sources, voices, and staff is very important to NPR, as evidenced by the work we do and the people who do it,” she said.

All points of view, from the merely far left to the looney, barking-at-the-moon, bang-whistle, batsh*t crazy left are important, evidently.

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posted on 07/21/2011 7:32:00 AM PDT
by Stand W
(Crush your enemies! See them driven before you! Hear the lamentations of their women!)

Gosh, I like Juan. I think conservatives benefit from listening to the non-rabid liberal’s point of view. I go to liberal web sites to familiarize myself with their thinking (usual irrational, slime laden emoting). Juan is a liberal...but he is a truly decent, honest man. I am glad he was hired by Fox.

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